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Try not to drive between now and then.

tornado watch and gusty until 4, predicted low 33 degrees. Got glasses? Or a monocle.

Yeah I try to get tickets to stage right/audience left no matter what for these concerts even though I don't play piano anymore, just because looking at the pianist hitting the keys is cool. Looking careless kind of implies that she didn't really care, which was my point. Not that she didn't hit the right notes (which you kind of have to do unless you're old Horowitz or something) but that she didn't really put thought into her playing to make it special or beautiful, or even consistent in terms of tempo and the like. Anyways, like I said, I'm sure it was nice and I'd like to have been there. I've been sitting here for the past couple hours writing a paper and writing code. Still got more work to do, going to do a birthday dinner tomorrow so won't really have time to do anything tomorrow night. Good shit. Cool that the attendant knows your sister, I'm sure it was a good thing. I haven't recorded anything in so long since school has gotten in the way, feels bad. I also need to do a little private concert sometime in the near future, haven't performed in front of people in awhile.

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lol I'll be wary of any blue Altimas on the road now. I've driven on the Beltway so many times that I may in fact have become a psychotic as well though. The Civic has treated me well, it has been pretty great at accident avoidance in the case of fucktards on the road (so, almost everyday).

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Happy birthday!

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It's not impossible for me to make it... currently a maybe.

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Actually using these files for portable use doesn't make sense from a memory storage point of view since portable devices are all flash-based now and 128GB (which is the smallest you'd want with hi-rez files) would still be quite cost prohibitive. It also doesn't make sense from a sound quality point of view, because even if you're playing the best mastered album at 24 bits you're still playing it through an ipod.

I definitely went through a Cowboy Bebop OST listening phase.

Yeah, that. I have an old BPC Sony receiver from the '90s that really sounds like shite, I don't understand why it sounds as bad as it does. Should probably take a look inside to see what not to do.

Hah, in the profession it's more like violinists and musicians in general pride themselves in being busy with another gig and thus not being able to attend. After all, more work means more success. I will be busy, but for engineering related stuff. I'm sure the concert will be nice, enjoy.

I meant that I don't like Valentina Lisitsa's playing. And no, don't take it in the way that I am somehow misogynistic again. I think she's part of this era's "bang bang" style of playing as fast and "virtuosic" as you can and just banging out notes, without regard for beauty or nuance. Other notables: Lang Lang and Evgeny Kissin.

Best chili (dog) I've ever had, that place is great.

Valentina Lisitsa :(

I bet that is tasty. Quarter pound of T bone steak, two bowls of rice, tomato+egg+cauliflower soup-ish thing, bowl of oatmeal, pear.

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lol